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with a rich purple : the whole under fide of the 

 body is white : the fides of the bread marked with 

 black lines: the back, coverts of the wings, and fca- 

 pulars, are black, marked with white fpots : thofe 

 on the fcapulars are very large, and of a fquare 

 ihape ; two at the end of each feather. 



The tail is very fhort, and almoft concealed 

 by the coverts, which are dufky fpotted with 

 white : the lep-s are black. Thefe birds inhabit 

 the northern parts of this ifland, live chiefly at 

 fea, and feed on fifh : we do not know whether 

 they breed with us, as they do in Norway -, which 

 has many birds in common with Scotland. In the 

 laft it is called Mur-buachaill^ or the Herd/man of 

 the fea, from its being fo much in that element. 



£38. Imber. Colymbus immer. Lin. fyft. Ember Goofe. Sibbald Scot. 



222. 21. Wallace Orkney, 16. 



Gefner's greater Doucker. Wil. Debes Feroe IJles, 138. Pon- 



orn. 342. Raii fyn. au. toppidan, II. 80. 



126. No. 8. Fluder. Gef- Le grand Plongeon. BriJJbn 



ner av. 140. VI. 105. Tab. X. 

 Jmmer. Brunnicb, No. 129. 



THIS fpecies inhabits the feas about the Ork- 

 nies-y but in fevere winters vifits the fouthern 

 parts of Great Britain. It lives as much at fea as the 

 former •, fo that credulity believed that it never 

 quitted the water, and that it hatched its young in 



a hole 



